They could've done that years ago with more conventional remote vehicles and larger bombs.

The real fact is that there aren't that many evil genius terrorists plotting a way to kill a crowd of people.

To me, the worry about killbots is state actors, not terrorists. Countries aren't usually about indiscriminate murder, they're usually trying to scythe away one group... Picking people out of a crowd and murdering them with facial recognition drones is a more realistic fear, imho.